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The Team

We started with two people, one shared dream and a lot of coffee. Just look where we are now!

Myles Anderson

Founder & CEO

Brighton, UK

Myles loves working with small business owners and local SEOs. He's enthused by their passion and commitment as it makes every day challenging and rewarding. Google+

Ed Eliot

Founder & CTO

Brighton, UK

Ed oversees technical operations. He built our first two tools and the basics of our admin panel. Ed brings 15 years of development experience to BrightLocal.

Alison McSorley

Operations Manager

Brighton, UK

Alison ensures that BrightLocal runs smoothly behind the scenes, with the management of all billing and invoicing.

Usman Barki

Project Manager

Brighton, UK

Usman is a key member of our project manager team. He leads product & project management on Citation & NAP products. His eye for detail & communication skills make him perfect for this demanding role.

Vicky Chandler

Head of Customer Success

Brighton, UK

Vicky heads up our Customer Success Team, improving all of our systems and processes, ensuring we are able to fully support all of our customers.

Helen Barnes

Customer Success Project Manager

Brighton, UK

Helen helps onboard New Clients and manages customized enterprise campaigns. She also monitors feedback of BrightLocal to ensure a high level of service.

Ian Lloyd

Customer Success Executive

Brighton, UK

Mathew Coghlan

Head of Business Development

Brighton, UK

Matt runs our Business Development team. Having worked in SEO since 2012, Matt’s BrightLocal journey began as a BrightLocal customer whilst working at a digital marketing agency.

Jon Rana

Enterprise Business Development

Brighton, UK

Jon helps look after new customers coming into the platform, helping to educate them and getting them setup to use the service to its full potential.

Andreas Georgiades

Enterprise Business Development

Brighton, UK

Andreas loves growing our relationships with new and existing clients, helping them get the most out of the BrightLocal platform.

Harry Richardson

Sales Support

Brighton, UK

Don't let his baby face fool you, Harry has a rich background in Sales Support and works closely with the business development team to help educate our enterprise partners on the platform.

Mike Wilson

Customer Success Agent

Brighton, UK

What Mike doesn't know about BrightLocal probably isn't worth knowing! He's on hand to help all our US & Canadian customers with their questions. Find him on live chat or on a Live Demo. Book yourself in for a Live Demo today.

John Forth

Digital Marketing Manager

Brighton, UK

John drives traffic to BrightLocal.com through search, social and display advertising as well as overseeing and implementing our conversion optimisation and tech SEO strategies.

Chris Sheward

Marketing Executive

Brighton, UK

Chris works across marketing, looking after our social and email footprints while also ensuring the BrightLocal site is properly optimized for search. Twitter

Jamie Pitman

Head of Content

Brighton, UK

Jamie heads up BrightLocal's content team, ensuring we produce insightful articles, research and resources that enable businesses and SEOs to get even better results in local search.

Rosie Murphy

Research & Content Manager

Brighton, UK

Rosie manages BrightLocal's delivery of research and survey pieces. She heads up data-driven content such as regular polls, webinars and whitepapers, including the Local Consumer Review Survey. Twitter

Dougal Crowder

Designer

Brighton, UK

Dougal is our in-house designer, helping us to keep the BrightLocal website & application looking great & evolving with the times. dougal.co

Christian Lawrence

UX Designer

Brighton, UK

Iurii Pochtar

Project Delivery Manager

Kyiv, Ukraine

Iurii is a member of our project manager team. He takes care of using best practices for development teams located in Ukraine.

Catherine O'Sullivan

Operations & Finance Executive

Brighton, UK

Cat’s job contains a little of everything, she makes sure the Brighton office runs smoothly while also assisting the Operations Manager with a variety of finance and billing tasks.

Lauren Thomasson

Product Expert & Demo Lead

Texas, USA

Lauren is the queen of 'live demos'! She's brilliant at walking our customers through our tools & reports so they get the best possible start on BrightLocal. Book yourself in for a Live Demo today.

Brad Franklin

Customer Success Agent

Apple Valley, CA

Brad has more than 10 years of experience in digital marketing, with a major focus on local search since 2010 and is a valued member of our customer success team.

Renier Alfeche

Head of Submissions

Philippines

Renier heads up our 40-man Citation team in the Philippines. He joined BrightLocal in 2009 and has been a huge part of our growth & success.

Joseph Jacinto

Lead Submissions Manager

Philippines

Joe oversees our citation submissions. He manages our ever-growing team and ensures the speedy distribution of tasks and the in-depth QA tests which all completed campaigns must pass.

Dmytro Vovk

Head of Infrastructure

Kyiv, Ukraine

Dmitry leads our Kiev team. He is an extremely knowledgeable and skilled developer with over 15 years of front-end and back-end development experience.

Sergey Mudrik

Systems Engineer

Kyiv, Ukraine

Dmitry Maltsev

Development Manager

Kyiv, Ukraine

With over 10 years of diverse development experience, Dmitry brings fresh skills and perspectives to the team.

Serioga Ivasenko

Team Lead

Kyiv, Ukraine

Serioga is a very experienced developer and leads one of our development teams. He has responsibility for a number of core services which form the backbone of BrightLocal.

Anastasiia Rybalova

Team Lead

Kyiv, Ukraine

Anastasiia is a back-end developer who focuses on different BrightLocal services, especially subscriptions and payments.

Alexandr Oliinyk

Team Lead

Kyiv, Ukraine

Alex is a thoroughbred developer who combines smart thinking with a great work ethic. We can throw anything at Alex and know that he'll do a great job.

Ivan Prokopenko

Developer

Kyiv, Ukraine

Ivan is a leading light in our development team. He combines high skill level with fresh thinking & a positive attitude. He also has great hair.

Alexander Narozhny

Developer

Kyiv, Ukraine

Alex focuses on our Citation & NAP services/APIs. He helps ensure the data accuracy of these services & the rollout to new countries.

Vitalii Harbulinskii

Infrastructure Engineer

Kyiv, Ukraine

Vitalii is a key member of our infrastructure team. He also works with NAP and Citations services.

Anton Zelenin

Developer

Kyiv, Ukraine

Vitaliij Dubenyuk

Developer

Kyiv, Ukraine

Alex Maslakov

Front-End Lead

Kyiv, Ukraine

Alex is a front-end developer who works with the UX/UI of internal tools.

Yevhen Kutniak

Front-End Developer

Kyiv, Ukraine

Yevhen is a front-end developer who helps BrightLocal to improve the interfaces of internal tools.

Kseniia Sevostianova

Front-End Developer

Kyiv, Ukraine

Kseniia is a skilled front-end developer with good understanding of the user mindset.

Yuriy PIddubnyak

Front-End Developer

Kyiv, Ukraine

Yura is our front-end developer. He deals with UX/UI and has strong marketing background.

Vitalii Nalyvaiko

Front-End Developer

Kyiv, Ukraine

Alina Sharipova

QA Lead

Kyiv, Ukraine

Alina is a certified QA engineer who manages and performs testing processes through all steps of Software Development Life Cycle to ensure that all features are high quality and meet requirements.

Tatyana is a skilled QA engineer, who manages quality of BrightLocal products on all steps of Software Development Life Cycle.

Daria Tatarina

QA Specialist

Kyiv, Ukraine

Daria is a highly qualified QA engineer who creates, implements and improves QA procedures for our products. She is also responsible for defining, updating and executing test cases.

Artem Hladenko

Automation QA

Kyiv, Ukraine

Valentyna Basiuk

Junior QA Specialist

Kyiv, Ukraine

Alyona Mytrofanova

Office Manager

Kyiv, Ukraine

Our Local Citation Specialists

We have 65 agents & 20 managers in our Citation submission team. Based in the BrightLocal office in Mindanao, Philippines, the team are dedicated to delivering high quality citation campaigns each month. These superstar citation agents and managers complete over 2,000 campaigns, delivering over 60,000 submissions for our customers every month.

Jobs

Customer Success Executive

Attendence: Full-Time

Location: Brighton

Salary: £20,000 - £23,000 + Bonus

Working as part of our Customer Success Team in our friendly Brighton office (5 minute walk from Brighton station) You will be primarily responsible for supporting our customers via email and live chat, plus rolling your sleeves up and assisting the Customer Experience Manager, and Head of Customer Success in shaping and implementing the strategies to define and achieve exceptional customer service at all levels

You will receive extensive training on SEO, marketing and the BrightLocal platform. You will use this knowledge to assist customers who contact us via live chat and email, impressing them with your knowledge and educating them about the benefits of BrightLocal.

Liaising with your colleagues in the Philippines, Kiev & USA, your internal relationships are as important as external ones and you’ll need to be a team-player and a great communicator to be successful in this role.

Content and Community Executive

This is a new role in our growing digital marketing team. We are looking for a versatile, skilled and enthusiastic marketer with a passion for content, design and social media/ community management.

BrightLocal is a marketing-driven business with 90% of leads coming through inbound marketing. Effective marketing is essential to our growth and this role is integral to our continued success and expansion. We are well-known for our first-class research pieces and educational content, as well as our ability to communicate important industry news in a timely and insightful fashion.

You will play a key role in supporting our content team to help plan and produce content that delights our users and widens our audience. You will help to source, proofread and publish content from our expert contributors.

You will use your design skills to enhance our content and research pieces, making them visually creative, engaging and suitable for various types of distribution (e.g. email, social media)

You will flex your social muscles by taking ownership of our social accounts to engage new and existing customers. You will be active on all relevant forums, answering questions and pushing BrightLocal’s position as a thought leader in the local search industry.

Locations

Brighton, UK

BrightLocal HQ is located in Brighton, UK. This is the nerve center of our operation and where the big decisions get made.

BrightLocal 86, Gloucester Road Brighton East Sussex BN1 4AP

Kyiv, UA

Kyiv houses the BrightLocal development team. Kyiv (or Kiev) is the capital and largest city of Ukraine and where the 'heavy-lifting' work gets done!

BrightLocal 8 Bolsunovska street Kyiv Ukraine

Valencia, PH

Valencia City is where our Citation team are located. Our modern office is centrally located with super-fast broadband and houses a dedicated team of citation experts.

Company History

BrightLocal was founded in 2009 by Ed Eliot and Myles Anderson.

Having spent 10+ years working for large media and internet businesses we wanted a change and relished the chance to use our knowledge to help local businesses grow through effective use of search marketing.

BrightLocal started out as a search agency providing local search services to a range of local businesses in and around London (UK). However, we soon ran into issues as we tried to grow the business and take on more customers.

We felt swamped by the scale of daily tasks facing our team. We needed to automate repetitive tasks such as running audits, tracking rankings, identifying citations, submitting to local directories, and monitoring reviews. We looked around to find specialist tools to help us but we couldn’t find any. Sure, there were lots of general SEO tools but none which focused on the needs of digital marketing agencies and local businesses.

So we decided to build them for ourselves. Then we showed them to a number of friendly SEOs in our network and the response was unanimous: “awesome…can i use them too!”

And so the BrightLocal toolset was born.

Since then we have grown to 120 dedicated staff in four countries, serving more than 50,000 amazing customers world-wide.